Tour de France: Tadej Pogacar can write cycling history

Tour de France: Pogacar can make history

Over the next three weeks, Tadej Pogacar will once again turn heads as he heads to the Tour de France To write cycling history. This year, the Slovenian could not only draw level with the record winners Jacques Anquetil, Bernard Hinault (FRA), Eddy Merckx (BEL) and Miguel Indurain (SPA), but at 27 years old he would also be the youngest professional cyclist to have won the Tour of France five times.

Nobody doubts that overall victory this year will only come from the exceptional talent from Ljubljana. “He is the best at the moment“Because he can do everything,” says Felix Großschartner, who is starting the team time trial in the Tour de France in Barcelona today alongside Pogacar.

Pogacar reserved: “Anything can happen in three weeks”

The top favorite is emphatically reserved before the start. “Every year you know at the start that anything can happen in three weeks,” explains the Slovenian. On the other hand, Tadej Pogacar can have one almost perfect season look back: He won the Tour de Suisse and the Tour de Romandie, as well as triumphs in the one-day classics Strade Bianche, Milan – Sanremo, Tour of Flanders and Liège – Bastogne – Liège; Only at Paris – Roubaix did he only finish second again.

So who should beat the defending champions?

The French are pinning their hopes of their first overall victory since 1985 on a 19-year-old. Paul Seixas, Felix Gall’s teammate, is considered a boy wonder and the French answer to Tadej Pogacar. Of course, the expectations of the entire Grande Nation rest on the young professional’s narrow shoulders.

The bigger challenger is probably there Jonas Vingegaardwho has already won the Tour de France twice. The Dane presented himself extremely well at the Giro d’Italia and won it in Pogacar style by a huge margin. “That gave me a huge boost and reinforced the feeling that we can win the Tour,” says Vingegaard.